All the headlines from our China Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 7 2013 // U.S. officials examined flight information recorders and began investigating the crash of an Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 that burst into flames upon landing in San Francisco, killing two teenaged Chinese students and...
Jul 3 2013 // What are elderly parents to do when their children no longer bother to visit? In China, there’s a new answer: sue the kids.That’s what 77-year-old “Granny Chu,” of Wuxi, China, did in April. On...
Jul 1 2013 // China is expanding a pilot system that tracks the movement of meat and vegetables to the supermarket shelf as part of efforts to tighten supervision of its scandal-plagued food industry.Under the programme, which is...
Jun 26 2013 // Swiss Re’s latest sigma study reveals that “total global premiums written increased by 2.4 percent in real terms in 2012 to $4.613 trillion. Life premiums expanded by 2.3 percent unwinding some of the...
Jun 24 2013 // American International Group Inc. revived plans for an initial public offering of its plane- leasing unit after the insurer extended a deadline for a group of Chinese investors to buy the business.International Lease...
Jun 18 2013 // Stephen Markscheid holds one of the riskiest jobs in the world — or so say directors and officers liability insurers.The 59-year-old former banker, a Mandarin-speaking American, sits on the boards of five U.S.-listed...
Jun 17 2013 // American International Group Inc. said it is open to new offers for its plane-leasing business and may pursue a public offering of the unit after a group of Chinese investors missed another deadline to buy the...
Jun 17 2013 // The solar construction industry has been extremely hot in recent years. Perhaps, too hot.The sector’s rapid growth has led to an oversupply of solar panels, which has turned up the heat on manufacturers to lower...
Jun 12 2013 // A new deal to curb carbon emissions could copy features from the Montreal Protocol, which the United States and China favored over its Kyoto counterpart in an agreement on greenhouse gases at the weekend.The 1987 Montreal...
Jun 7 2013 // On the site of a former military golf course where President Dwight Eisenhower once played, the future of U.S. warfare is rising in the shape of the new $358 million headquarters for the military’s Cyber Command.The...
Jun 7 2013 // Safety management at the Chinese firm whose poultry slaughterhouse caught fire earlier this week killing 120 people was a “total mess” and two senior executives have been detained by the authorities, state...
Jun 6 2013 // China’s top Internet security official says he has “mountains of data” pointing to extensive U.S. hacking aimed at China, but it would be irresponsible to blame Washington for such attacks, and called for...
Jun 5 2013 // Insurer American International Group Inc. has received a delayed deposit payment from the Chinese consortium buying its ILFC airplane leasing business, AIG said in a regulatory filing on Wednesday.Last week AIG said it had...
Jun 5 2013 // Chinese President Xi Jinping and American counterpart Barack Obama will talk cyber-security this week in California, but experts say the state’s Silicon Valley and its signature high-tech firms should provide the...
Jun 5 2013 // American International Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Robert Benmosche raised doubt about whether the company will complete a sale of its plane-leasing unit to a Chinese investor group by a deadline this...
Jun 5 2013 // Workers at a poultry slaughterhouse in northeastern China where 119 people died in a fire this week saw nothing odd in the plant’s doors being locked, even after a previous fire at the 4-year-old facility.One...
Jun 3 2013 // China’s President Xi Jinping ordered an investigation into the cause of a fire at a poultry plant in northeastern China that killed at least 119 people, the nation’s deadliest blaze in 13 years.Xi and Premier...
Jun 3 2013 // Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Friday that cyber threats posed a “quiet, stealthy, insidious” danger to the United States and other nations, and called for “rules of the road” to guide...
Jun 3 2013 // China will study the possibility of joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade talks, the Commerce Ministry said on Thursday, signaling its openness to the U.S.-led trade pact.“We will analyze the pros and...
May 31 2013 // A Chinese group’s purchase of ILFC, one of the world’s largest airplane leasing businesses, could collapse after insurer American International Group Inc. said on Friday it did not receive a scheduled deposit...